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Vilanch trims fat for VH1's `Celebrity Fit Club'

November 20, 2005|By Terry Armour

Once upon a time, Bruce Vilanch lost a lot of weight--80 pounds to be exact. "It took me a while, but I managed to get them all back," he told Armour & Co. when we tracked him down in San Francisco, where he's doing his comedy cabaret show "Almost Famous."

Vilanch is currently part of VH1's "Celebrity Fit Club," which pits teams of celebrities against each other to see who can lose the most weight. Vilanch already has dropped 20 of the 45 pounds he has to shed by Christmas. And he doesn't mind doing it in the public eye. "I have done it every other way but I have never been paid to lose weight before," he told us. "This may be the ultimate motivation. I have managed to avoid both Ben and Jerry."